LIVE TALK: Square co-founder: Jim McKelvey, Live Talk on Moving The Needle of Drug Discovery

This talk was recorded live at our Giant Ideas event at the Tate Modern earlier this year.

Jim McKelvey, best known for co-founding multi-billion dollar company Square, joined the stage at Giant Ideas to talk about moving the needle of drug discovery.

McKelvey co-founded Square with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey in 2009, and it became a revolutionary payment processing company, allowing small businesses to accept credit card payments via a simple mobile device. The company is now worth a multi-billion dollar valuation, with the card payment design even featured in the Museum of Modern Art.

Jim is a true renaissance man. He’s a philanthropist, donating $15 million to the Washington University to build a new computer science and engineering building named after his father. He’s also an accomplished glassblower. He has his own glass art studio and gallery. Since founding Square he has built Invisibly - a company seeking to allow consumers to profit from their online data - and is now exploring how to transform drug discovery.

Losing his mother in his twenties created a drive for Jim to act. It also made him want to tackle the issue of Eroom's law: the observation that drug discovery is becoming slower and more expensive over time. In this talk he talks about the issues with drug discovery, why smart people are getting bad answers, and how he wants to solve this issue.

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Music credits: Bubble King written and produced by Cameron McLain and Stevan Cablayan aka Vector_XING.

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